18 I have been told that the normal tax rate during the Roman Empire was 1%, increasing to 3% during emergencies. How true is this? How did Rome build an empire on minimal taxation?

19 Did people attacking castles actually get boiling oil poured on them? If so, where did it come from?

20 How intelligent was Fidel Castro?

21 Why was Julius Caesar stabbed only 23 times? In most stabbings, the victim is stabbed multiple times by each perpetrator, so if there were multiple conspirators, wouldn't there be more knife wounds?

22 Would you rather have lived in the Middle Ages or in Ancient Rome/Greece?

23 Is there any evidence to support the theory that aliens helped build the pyramids, or is it solely based on the presence of holes in stones?

24 How close was Britain from losing WW2?

25 What did the Kaiser think of Hitler and vice versa?

26 What is the most shocking/surprising piece of history you know?

27 What happened to Hitler’s biological family after the war?

28 Why didn't the Romans build a structure as advanced and practical like the pyramids of Giza?

29 What are some of the strangest currencies in history?

30 Is there any reason why the Native American civilization never was able to work metal?

31 Could the passengers on either plane that flew into the towers see that they were about to impact them? Or was the angle of the planes as such that nobody could see except for the pilots?

32 Have there been any black empires in Europe throughout history?

33 How would the real German Nazis view the modern-day neo-Nazis, such as "Nazi skinheads" and their ilk, whether in Europe or America?

34 Why are most of the victims of the Jonestown massacre faced down?

35 Who is the most evil person in history? Is it a world leader or someone more obscure?

36 What was Stalin's reason for being so brutal?

37 What are some incredible photos showing how much the world has changed in 100 years?

38 Did Live Aid do anything to relieve the famine in Ethiopia?

39 How did Rome react after the assassination of Julius Caesar?

40 Why did the British Royal Navy sink the General Belgrano during the Falklands conflict, when the Belgrano was in retreat and outwith British-claimed territorial waters?

41 Who was the most inbred king?

42 If you could have lunch with either Hitler, Stalin, Kim Jong Un, Tsar Nicholas II, Napoleon, or Julius Caesar, who would you choose?

43 Why have Russians always been so different from West and Europeans despite their proximity and location and somewhat shared history?

44 Why do medieval trebuchet remakes seem to be so weak? How are they able to destroy thick and fortified walls when they have very short range and can't get near?

45 Was Akbar really as great as written in our school books?

46 Why did the ancient world seem so much more advanced than the medieval world?

47 What unfair policies were practiced during times of war?

48 Can you tell me a bizarre myth about Henry VIII?

49 Why did the Communist policy of forced-collectivization always lead to famine and less agricultural yield? Case in point the Soviet famine of 1932-33 and the Great Chinese famine of 1958-61.

50 What are the most famous solved mysteries?

51 Why does France still have some islands in Canada?

52 Why was Constantinople so hard to conquer?

53 It's the early 19th century and I'm an Englishman in the middle of a duel. My opponent has fired and missed. My pistol is loaded. Now what?

54 Why did Stalin go to all the trouble of having Trotsky assassinated inside his Mexico City fortress 6,700 miles away from Moscow?

55 If Napoleon is one of the greatest military geniuses of all time, why did he allow his army in Russia to be destroyed by cold weather, something entirely foreseeable?

56 Why didn't the Soviet leaders choose their children as their heirs?

57 What happened to Alexander Kerensky?

58 Who was the most badass single soldier in history?

59 Did Joseph Stalin live modestly?

60 What is the difference between Marx and Lenin in five sentences?

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